Return of Heads Up Gate

I'm glad Frank Rich reminded the world of the absolutely unjustifiable delay the White House was granted allowing them to hold off on officially being required to maintain documents. It's one tidbit of this case that I'd forgotten. NPR reported at the time:

The White house asked for and got permission earlier this week to wait a day before issuing a directive to preserve all documents and logs which led one seasoned federal prosecutor to wonder why they wanted to wait a day, and who at the justice department told them they could do that, and why?

It's another part of this scandal which should've raised more than a few eyebrows among the beltway kool kids, but they weren't too concerned about it at the time.

APJ lets us know that we've learned something new - that Gonzales told Andy Card that night.

While we're walking down memory lane, we must also remember that the documents were also vetted by Gonzales before they even got to the Justice Department.